This PR replaces the old note mentioning that `typing` is a provisional module with a new one mentioning types are not enforced at runtime. I am not sure if there was any official announcement about making `typing` non-provisional, but _de-facto_ no new features were added during Python 3.7, and no backwards incompatible changes were made except for few small things that were considered bugs.
Typically, the second positional argument for ``seek()`` is *whence*. That is the POSIX standard name (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/lseek.3p.html) and the name listed in the documentation for ``io`` module (https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.IOBase.seek).
The tutorial for IO is the only location where the second positional argument for ``seek()`` is referred to as *from_what*. I suspect this was created at an early point in Python's history, and was never updated (as this section predates the GitHub repository):
```
$ git grep "from_what"
Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst:To change the file object's position, use ``f.seek(offset, from_what)``. The position is computed
Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst:the *from_what* argument. A *from_what* value of 0 measures from the beginning
Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst:the reference point. *from_what* can be omitted and defaults to 0, using the
```
For consistency, I am suggesting that the tutorial be updated to use the same argument name as the IO documentation and POSIX standard for ``seek()``, particularly since this is the only location where *from_what* is being used.
Note: In the POSIX standard, *whence* is technically the third positional argument, but the first argument *fildes* (file descriptor) is implicit in Python.
https://bugs.python.org/issue37635
* This just copies the docs from `StreamWriter` and `StreamReader`.
* Add docstring for asyncio functions.
https://bugs.python.org/issue36889
Automerge-Triggered-By: @asvetlov
The usedforsecurity keyword only argument added to the hash constructors is useful for FIPS builds and similar restrictive environment with non-technical requirements that legacy algorithms be forbidden by their implementations without being explicitly annotated as not being used for any security related purposes. Linux distros with FIPS support benefit from this being standard rather than making up their own way(s) to do it.
Contributed and Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes christian@python.org
* subprocess: Add user, group and extra_groups paremeters to subprocess.Popen
This adds a `user` parameter to the Popen constructor that will call
setreuid() in the child before calling exec(). This allows processes
running as root to safely drop privileges before running the subprocess
without having to use a preexec_fn.
This also adds a `group` parameter that will call setregid() in
the child process before calling exec().
Finally an `extra_groups` parameter was added that will call
setgroups() to set the supplimental groups.
* Add a note to the PyModule_AddObject docs.
* Correct example usages of PyModule_AddObject.
* Whitespace.
* Clean up wording.
* 📜🤖 Added by blurb_it.
* First code review.
* Add < 0 in the tests with PyModule_AddObject
* bpo-13927: time.ctime and time.asctime return string explantion
* Add note explaining that time.ctime and time.asctime returns a space padded date value in case it contains a single digit date
* Reformat linebreaks
The socket module now has the socket.send_fds() and socket.recv.fds() functions.
Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye, Shinya Okano (original patch)
and Victor Stinner.
Co-Authored-By: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
* bpo-36260: Add pitfalls to zipfile module documentation
We saw vulnerability warning description (including zip bomb) in Doc/library/xml.rst file.
This gave us the idea of documentation improvement.
So, we moved a little bit forward :P
And the doc patch can be found (pr).
* fix trailing whitespace
* 📜🤖 Added by blurb_it.
* Reformat text for consistency.